he insists he never swayed on the white side of the war look at the weather but we saw a truck driving on the main road something made me suspicious and i checked out the cargo we found our contacts airline in some drugs but what for him claims he didn't expect to find a driver of the total photos he was involved in drug smuggling. i saw him sell is guarded by another policeman if. he's been taking drugs since he was twelve and went for treatment only recently after the prison warden found out he's in good company according to recent us congress report nearly cost me us companies are doing drugs well. when i want to have a policeman as i was. i can't quite afford for about two years all the other policeman knew about quite a few police for the drug addicts not telling anyone they're just saying i'm smoking something. political afghanistan's biggest jail many of the five thousand

prisoners here are doing time for drug smuggling and or drug use but the knocks on not sure safe way of keeping the drugs out. there on the move these are the different kinds of drugs we collected over the past years in the league this is a mix of both your contacts you wouldn't want to buy them off this is opium i want but this is the kind of tricks drugs inside a calm family members coming to visit bring these with them we found drugs in shoes over the years prison guards have been charged with lending a hand. up they will give you it's true when i joined a few years ago lots of dollars were involved in smuggling drugs into the jail they are not very good educated. and. there are a lot joining. years truth out of the you joined the police to

starve themselves but the ministry of kontum a cottage insists it's now got a hold on the problem before the police can become a police he detested he will have sort of tests before coming to before going through the exercise or are becoming a police sergeant this is something that has been developed and army level but questions remain what if some of those funds in afghanistan's drug war are actually foot soldiers from the other side and with the many challenges the country faces doesn't really have the resources to tackle the corruption within its ranks inside these four walls is a snapshot of the problems facing afghan society tell of members drug traffickers and petty criminals and the prisons are overcrowded porous here our team pretty cheeky person karpal. former white house drug policy spokesman robert wiener says

the drug problem can only be solved by eradicating the poppy crops altogether. the disease is not a policy this is an accident of nature and it will come right back in a year or two to be the huge amount of drugs that is routinely making afghanistan the number one supplier in the world one of the very good things that has happened is the new united nations drugs are yuri fedotov is from russia he's a very strong eradication advocate and the previous united nations drugs are mr cost we confronted him on this was against eradication thinking that it would be difficult for the economy of afghanistan and you have to make nice with the people what mr casa didn't understand what mr fedotov in the united nations now doesn't understand is that the only way that you can cut off money from the taliban and money from al qaida because this is drugs are seventy percent of their funding is

to eradicate the drugs out of the source of their money and they will go to that proportion disappear and so will the violence against all the countries on earth that terrorists are. disappear and be drastically reduced by that so it's a wonderful development that we now have a strong drug czar from russia but the eradication must be combined with what hillary clinton is proposing which is crop substitution you can't just throw the farmers out and say you're not allowed to live you have to give them a way to live those two policies combined eradication and crop substitution can be a solution. and nato's war efforts in afghanistan face another obstacle pakistan has closed an important supply route for the coalition one hundred fuel tankers and trucks having been allowed into afghanistan and seen as a retaliation to a nato helicopter strike into the territory of pakistan in which three local soldiers were killed and three more wounded the alliance says the incident is now being investigated and promised pakistan's sovereignty would be respected recently

of a number of missile strikes and helicopter raids against suspected militants hiding in pakistan's tribal areas has been on the rise pakistani officials say the attacks violate international law and should be stopped pakistani political expert ahmed corrections tells r.t. that the us led coalition has failed to persuade tossed and tried to leave it on either side of the border to join in the peace. you didn't expect that box and could go actually more further ahead and completely shut down needed supplies because there's a strong feeling that box done is getting to the bad side of the stick we didn't get what we really expected from this alliance with the united states with nato in afghanistan and of course fox money interests are not being looked after or respected by our friends and have guns done and if this continues you might as well see a complete you have to understand something tribes of course i divided by this manufactured border and and in order to completely stop the push to ones from any of the tribes

to really help each other during this war in afghanistan there's only one way to do that and that is to bring political reconciliation in afghanistan so basically what i'm saying is and what box any officials have been. telling american officials but not in a forceful way that you need to resolve the problem of isolating the push to get them out of power in kabul and they are of course angry about this and what you see the resistance that you see the afghan taliban whatever they're doing in afghanistan part of that is an expression of. anger at to excluding them from power in kabul so unless you bring them into the power circle the push to. it will keep fighting and it is unfair in this situation to expect pakistan to completely clamp down on the push to tribesmen whether they are of gun or whether they are pakistani throughout the past eight years of course boxen has been coming up with suggestions in order to defuse tensions inside of gun is done box down the ideas box any suggestions box on the input were completely ignored and in eight years of course

we've seen the situation go from what from that to worse than a gun has done i don't think it is possible that you could do and you could achieve that kind of an end in afghanistan without having a strong box that involvement perspective from pakistani political experts. i haven't even defense analysts from the independent institute an american think tank believes the strikes against militants on pakistani pakistani territory may be damaging for the u.s. forces i think they need to cut back the straits not increase and because they're there apparently of those these latest round of strikes to prevent terrorists from attacking europe and last i knew the united states was not in europe i mean we're supposed to be safeguarding our own security and i think welling away in pakistan just makes more enemies so i think for the pakistani people sake and for the united states sake and also i think for the effectiveness against al qaeda these drone strikes should be restricted to. not even the pakistani taliban and i think that

would help a lot and it would avoid killing innocent pakistani civilians. coming up a little later here on the program we'll tell you about therapy one foot under. feels very very strange the story very cold and also doing all right but i think it's going to get a lot more scary. we explore how it feels to be buried alive and why anyone would ever volunteer for the ordeal. but first to explosive devices equivalent to at least ninety kilos of t.n.t. have been diffused in russia stabber polar region and what authorities have called a terrorist attack around three thousand people were evacuated from nearby buildings as well as a school for safety reasons the first bomb in a car was supposed to have set off by the vehicles alarm system the second was nearby and believed to have been targeted at police officers who were to respond to the first explosion authorities also discovered the body of

a man in the car has been identified as a local cab driver the prosecutor's office says he was shot dead but they don't believe he was linked to the attempted attack on. global media outlets covering this year's u.n. assembly in new york have been criticized for disregarding smaller countries most of the press left after the main speeches ended leaving the views of more than one hundred nations on heard artie's marie important i reports on why so many delegates speeches fell on deaf ears. and international circus of political power. public stress for new yorkers. reporters secret service and barricades three signs of world leaders are crammed inside one building for the annual united nations general assembly debate. this diplomatic gathering provides more than one hundred ninety countries an opportunity to promote their foreign policy agenda but generally it's always the same voices now is the time to build the trust dominating

the states in identifying those responsible in the september eleventh attacks journalists flew in from all over the. world to cover this seven day event with people who have endured too much war but once the richest and strongest finished pledging their promises. the press prematurely concluded their coverage people don't care so it's kind of sad to hear what they say what you write. you know the reason that the mainstream media pulled the plug on this international story friday evening with more than one hundred and twenty nations yet to speak abandoned by live trucks and most police presence nations like palestine congo and mongolia were left a dressing half empty auditoriums by monday when cuba spoke of suffering under us and our goes by camera outside the un belong to a tourist between two thousand and twenty five hundred journalists were accredited

at the un for the general assembly debate and when u.s. president barack obama was here the room i'm standing in was packed when he left he took all the media attention with him now only a handful of journalists are left to report about all the other countries that are addressing the international body the poorest leaders took to the podium campaigning for climate change and the scene inside the u.n. media center spoke volumes less than ten reporters and garbage cans overflowing with recycled rubbish. today also reflects the. much attention. you know global governance seems to have so many challenges to address. a lot of difficult to say addressing those challenges the first maybe garnering respect from its host country nearly seventy percent of americans think the u.n. does a lousy job in solving global problems maybe they should move it somewhere or maybe

go in as ireland where nobody would be affected by you know. inconvenience for everyone however most of the world critic. sizes americans for neglecting to understand local problems we only know what we're we don't know exactly what's going. on and that's good and bad i mean. we should know we should it should be you know to say for everyone it's not the united nations may remain a place where everyone continues to talk and neglects to listen marina point nine party new york turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe a state of emergency has been declared in ecuador as the president. of a plot against him is coming he was attacked at a rally by protesters rioting against benefit cuts hundreds of soldiers and police also seized the capital's main airport the president says it's all part of the opposition's attempt to overthrow a government and he bring peru has closed its border until constitutional order is

restored. the. controversy hits india over a court decision to split control over a holy site in the northern ancient town of the main disputed section where a mosque was torn down in one thousand nine hundred two has been allocated to hindus while muslims will be in charge of other parts of the taliban at the heart of bloody riots that seen two thousand killed over the last twenty years the muslim community has already said it will appeal the verdict. plans to ban the muslim veil in the netherlands have been announced by politicians in the country's proposed new coalition government it also pledged to tighten laws on immigration the alliance is a minority made up of the christian democrats and the liberal party policies are thought to be aimed at gaining the support of gerd wilders the leader of a controversial party known for its anti muslim stance. and a high level united nations panel have started hearings on sexual violence cases in the democratic republic of the congo victims began sharing their experiences as

part of efforts to improve treatment and support this comes after the release of her preliminaries un. report into the rape of hundreds of civilians including children in the north kivu province two months ago the panel will visit troubled regions throughout the country to conduct more than one hundred hearings over the next ten days. don't forget you can also find plenty more on the stories we cover along with the video when blogs one click away at our t.v. dot com. online amazing footage captures a scene petersburg pedestrian narrowly avoiding getting crushed to death thanks to quick thinking and even quicker feats. find out why moscow's gay community has been allowed to hold protests in the city's streets for the first time in its history. and if you feel like exploring the russian countryside check out the go friendly hotel farms set up by a french ex all this and more at r.t. dot com.

finally in this news blog people are always searching for new ways to relieve the stress and strains of everyday life in russia every group of therapists has come up with an innovative but extreme method to overcome your issues by burying people alive they claim that twenty minutes of it can change your outlook on life despite grave doubts bennett gave it a try. above ground there are a few signs of life. below the surface a man trapped with his greatest fear is pavel has just been buried alive for twenty minutes not torture but extreme therapy. has no good the first thing you experience is panic once your face is covered with dirt you start tasting as i'm thinking of

what the hell am i doing down here or for the bee i don't want to come down to simply know on a place like this these are the grave digging therapists modeling the burials on an ancient form of self in lightening practice by shamans they wanted to make the rights more accessible believing everyone can benefit. as the most effective and powerful method would be overcome an internal problems person can neither see nor hear in it nor even move underground they have no other option but to delve deep inside their own eyes. the burial cost you around one hundred sixty dollars attracting both men and women from students to fifty something professionals all aiming to suffocate their worries to the maximum burial is fourteen minutes the only band in mind struggles to cope with the lack of physical function to get thirty centimeters. in the pressure would be too great to stand once under the volunteers retrieve this cheat the organizers

a ten year veteran of living burials and says this shouldn't be tried at home. we have to be able to get the person it's very fast and also to contact them like you got earth for us to be distributed in a certain way to process the body which later that's the key joints pressurized and use you can practice burials without knowing about. them until now i didn't think i suffered from any cost a phobia and that could soon change because i'm going to try this for myself now me given this to breakthrough which i'm told that we monitoring at all times so for now stop and all i have to do is make a noise so here we go. well they started to fill in my grave as it were yet this feels very very strange the story is very cold and also heavy i'm doing all right at the moment but i think it's going to get a lot more scary and i was right five minutes after being buried alive i was very

ready to see the light of day again. was one of the weirdest experiences of my life i felt completely trapped and i'm definitely never doing that again out of any artsy moscow. for many russians the summer of two thousand and ten will be remembered for the scorching heat massive wildfires and suffocating smog in a moment r.t. interviews the country's emergencies minister sergey show you on the lessons learned.

the best at this. hello mr sze thank you for your time this summer russia faced great forest fires and some are still raging why do you think it all happened on such a scale to have worked up and washed up so. the key reason for all this of course is the record breaking heat we had in central russia along the volga river which caused forest fires in quite a significant scale those fires could have been prevented to a certain extent but only to an extent through time the fire alerts under such climatic conditions the key goal is to extinguish fires within one hour from them

starting least on the same day. because the fire is not contained in six hours winds occur that make the situation critical the fire becomes either a running crown fire or a high acreage ground fire with winds of up to twenty to twenty five meters per second even thirty meters per second in summer. forest fires turn into fire storms and no fire service in the world has been able to deal with things like that so far the situation now on the contrary to the second part of your question about fires is far better now than at the same time last year and the previous years perhaps this is due to the fact all of our cities are mobilized and alert in the wake of the great events of late july and august speaking of lessons we can learn from all this we sure are reviewing many postulates and dogmas we used to have before we are considering changes upon the president's orders to russia's forest legislation how exactly did that forest legislation prevent the authorities from fighting fires.

well to begin with this function has been delegated to the level of municipalities federal entities and forest department along with fire safety and fire control and forests federal entities were supposed to handle all that work tenders and choose businesses and organizations to protect forests from fires but unfortunately that work was not done well enough in some regions authorities gave contracts to businesses that had neither the equipment nor the staff nor the experience to prevent forest fires in my circle and if so. can you say that your ministry didn't everything it could to fight the forest fires or easter something you were displeased with international yeah. i think we on our cars used as much effort and equipment as possible i can say thank god that through all those years against all odds we kept developing new equipment new aircraft and firefighting systems that helped us a great deal in putting out the forest fires it is perhaps the first time that the entire system of the federal firefighting service has been fully engaged in

combating forest fires our zone of responsibility was in residential areas we usually work in towns and villages but this time we had to quickly learn previously unfamiliar ways to talk of high acreage fires especially crown fires i've previously i'm familiar. what i began with it's not our function. it's the function of the federal forestry agency but when the first fires broke out wasn't the president informed that the police wasn't he told that perhaps your ministry should be involved in fighting the fires. when the situation became critical the president signed a decree that declared a state of emergency means all federal forces and the ministry of emergency first of all are engaged this is why it took us just two days to establish a task force of nearly one hundred sixty thousand people and almost twenty six thousand units of equipment we also created a large aerial task force with up to fifty aircraft operating simultaneously after all on the third or the fourth day we had begun putting out more fires than there

were new ones up to four hundred or five hundred new fires would break out every day and in addition to fighting new fires we had to keep fighting the existing ones so i think the fact that we managed to save some four thousand six hundred residential areas with a total population of more than half a million is a great achievement for our firefighters volunteers and local residents and the military who are also someone to help all the people who stood up against the elements in this emergency of course we analyze all our work we exchange experience and advice with our western colleagues issues i would like everyone to realize that such disasters are not nation specific catastrophe is no no borders customs nationalities or religion this is perhaps the most important lesson we should learn from this situation or should we should learn to consolidate our efforts to join forces to give a helping hand to each other and to do our job efficiently but lobsang the problem with so few right more and more disasters touch not only one country or region but sometimes whole continents is there any close warning system how often do you and

your foreign counterparts interact with each other and more to. last for far as here in russia we didn't ask for any help but we didn't reject it when it was offered we are grateful to our foreign colleagues who came from one thousand countries to provide help and support it is essential and i point out that one. again you see that a disaster knows no borders or nationalities are top priority safety and human lives this is the key to us and we got from the situation just like nuts and then just as i've heard it's all the soup whether it's less with the truth look at it in more global terms there is an impression that natural disasters have become more frequent in russia and elsewhere around the world wildfires are followed by floods and floods are followed by tsunami so what should we prepare for this is just going to get worse and worse. as you may know really just the number of natural disasters has indeed increased over the past twenty years and this increase is significant it's not just my outside impression indeed this is research carried out

by analysts the number of natural disasters is not just up by the church here fifty percent it's several times more than that everybody knows that here i'd like to warn you against two things first there's always a great desire to use the situation for political purposes this should be avoided the environmental serious politicized so much in russia that it's impossible to see when it's true or when the truth is exploited for political purposes because it is going to boarding to opinion polls you've been the most popular minister for the past few years why do you think that is. i don't think it's right when an emergency minister is the most popular minister in the country music but i believe that artists writers culture and foreign ministers should be the most popular figures whereas in emergencies minister should largely stay unemployed thank you for this interview.

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just. one thirty am in moscow good to have you with us here on r.t. in your headlines afghanistan's opium harvest falls by about a half but the value soars with drugs ending up in the hands of prisoners and even police officers. pakistan blocks a vital supply route from u.s. led coalition forces into afghanistan after a cross border nato air strike claimed for the deaths of three pakistani soldiers. major media outlets leave the un general assembly in new york as the world's political heavy hitters the party pulling the plug on coverage smaller nations at a gathering intended to boost helpful poor countries. up ahead find out why

switzerland's finance minister had the nation in stitches and why some buildings in china are demolished before they're even completed all that and more coming your way in the kaiser report in a moment here on r.t. . time now once again for the times reporter with me by surprise or stacy herbert markets finance scandals oh we've got all the scandals there are so many scandals so you see her tell us more tell us more tell us more here's the first headline hans rudolph merits bunar fly fly fish lock and fall blue. oh yeah. ok and it's the finance minister first switzerland and he's speaking before parliament a very banal subject of import dried beef and whether it's flavored before.